Biden told a crowd at a North Carolina rally the day after the debate that he doesn’t “debate as well as I used to” — but insisted that he can still “do this job.”
President Biden did not calm his critics on Friday night following his interview with ABC News, fueling more calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 race and sparking fierce condemnation for refusing to commit to a cognitive exam.
“I wimped out in today’s column and deleted a line saying he should formulate a plan to transition the presidency to Harris within 30-60 days, but I’m there now. Something is clearly wrong here,” polling guru Nate Silver reacted to the Biden interview.
“The most generous way to put it is that he doesn’t seem in command, and that’s an extremely hard sell when you’re Commander in Chief. I continue to think this number is low and Democrats will apply incredible amounts of pressure,” Silver continued, pointing to the Polymarket stat showing a “57% chance” Biden drops out of the race.
“The president is rightfully proud of his record. But he is dangerously out-of-touch with the concerns people have about his [capacities] moving forward and his standing in this race,” former Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote on X. “Four years ago at this time, he was 10 points ahead of Trump. Today, he is six points behind.”
“I deeply respect Joe Biden’s lifetime of service to our country. But the argument [Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez] makes in this column is the right one. In this critical time, in this vital election, stepping aside is the right and honorable thing for President Biden to do,” businessman and former Democratic LA mayoral candidate Rick Caruso wrote.
Not as bad as the debate’ is like saying a movie wasn’t as bad as ‘Howard the Duck,’” National Review editor Phillip Klein quipped.
“That @ABC interview did not help. At all,” CNN contributor S.E. Cupp said. “There’s no ‘A for effort.’ It’s beat Trump or step aside.”
“Something scary this interview is making clear…As much as the folks around Biden hid the truth from us…Is how much they’re hiding the truth from Biden,” Ruthless podcast host Comfortably Smug wrote.
Many called out Biden for repeatedly dodging questions from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about whether he would agree to take a neurological test and release its findings to the public.
Some, including Silver and Versus Media podcast host Stephen L. Miller, declared his refusal “disqualifying.”
“Surprised no emphasis on fact that Biden flatly refuses to take cognitive test. Clearly afraid of the possible results. And that is enormously telling,” former New York Times reporter Bill Carter reacted.
“Why would Biden, if he’s fully up to snuff, not agree to undergo a neurological evaluation? What would be the downside there?” Insider reporter Bryan Metzger wondered.
“So in summary: Biden refused to say he’d take a cognitive test, refused to say he would consider stepping down if key allies asked him to, said the polls are fake news, and that he wouldn’t fret if he lost as long as he tried his best. This is all Trumpian bulls—. Just madness,” The Atlantic contributing writer Tyler Austin Harper slammed the president.
Others concluded that the ABC interview was not the death knell to Biden’s candidacy, while at the same time, it will give Democrats more heartburn as the campaign unfolds.
“That was the worst possible outcome: not anywhere near good enough to settle matters, but also not quite bad enough to be a slam-dunk that he has to go tomorrow,” The New Republic editor Michael Tomasky said.
“George Stephanopoulos failed to euthanize Joe Biden tonight, but he probably inspired a lot of Democrats to force Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, etc. to push Biden to get out,” conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote.
“This interview was the worst of all worlds for the Ds. Biden committed no real flubs. He didn’t do anything to force himself out of the race. But he appears old, weak, tentative and he’s losing to Trump. So Biden will dig in and stay. The Ds are stuck,” Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer similarly posted.
Biden’s shocking debate performance has become a political earthquake with wide swaths of the liberal media calling for him to withdraw from the presidential race.
His handlers, Jill and Hunter, sent him out for the 2nd round, his mouth piece, Karine Jean-Pierre, touted that the Big Man was fine. Been down a half-dozen times in round one, punch drunk, legs like rubber, the corner can’t stop the bleeding, at his direction they are ordered not to throw in the towel. Their man says, “I know I can beat him, yes like a drum.” “Yes, I’m the only one.”
They push the dead man walking out for the final carnage to face an opponent who has no mercy, one who is out for blood. It’s a one-two punch, set up by a left jab (what an irony) then a vicious uppercut that he didn’t see it coming – neck stretched, head snaps back manifesting a dizzy array of confused like expressions, eyes roll back into the skull, in a sliver of consciousness Stupid realizes what has transpired.
His head catches the ropes, a split second before going down in a flurry, with a dazed facial utterance, the brain dead skull hits the canvas bouncing off the tarmac like canvas, in a slow motion sequence, not once, not twice, but three times. The pundits call it a disaster of the third kind. The corner came in rendering help, if there was any to be given.
Stupid didn’t want a doctor, he knew it all, with his cauliflower ears, wasn’t hearing none of it. For the punch drunk brain dead favorite said a neurological specialist was not in the cards. One step away from inhaling his last breath, he still knew it all.
Deaths door finally arrived, a long time coming, but for this lying feces, it could not have come soon enough, lies will only get you so far before you run out of them. The Big Guy, stupid being stupid, had lost his pride, had nowhere to hide as the world’s 9 billion watched in disbelief the end to this Mother Fucker.
There will be no party, no comeback this time, no acknowledgement but the hole dug by him. Down goes the Dementia One, no fanfare, no more victories, but a devastating loss for all to remember.The blood bath
was so severe, the devastating loss so great, being unconscious, Stupid never realize what happened.
His tombstone read, “Here lies a liar and his bunch of lies, that is the simple truth.”MAWS (make America weak again), beaten to a pulp by MAGA for the ultimate loss in retribution to a stolen election.
This time The Steal
was stopped in its tracks when the final hammer came down.
China seizes Taiwan boat with crew for illegal fishing
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes & Fan Wang, BBC News in Taipei and Singapore
China has said it seized a Taiwanese boat, which had five crew members on board, for illegally fishing in its territorial waters on Tuesday night.
Taiwan has asked China to release the vessel – and the men, two Taiwanese and three Indonesians – which is being held at Weitou, a port in the south-east.
Taiwanese officials have confirmed to the BBC that the boat was seized inside China’s territorial waters, about 2.8 nautical miles (5.1km) off its coast. It was also operating during China’s annual summer-time fishing ban from May to August.
“The fishing vessel violated the fishing moratorium regulations and trawled illegally within the… prohibited area,” Liu Dejun, spokesperson of the China Coast Guard, said.
He also accused it of using the wrong fishing gear and “damaging marine fishery resources”. Taiwan is yet to respond to these comments.
Such altercations have become common in the contested 110-mile strait that separates China and Taiwan.
China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and the strait as its exclusive economic zone, although other countries that navigate these waters, such as Japan and the United States, do not recongise this. And the Chinese military has ramped up pressure on Taiwan in recent years.
Chinese authrities have seized and detained 17 Taiwan-registered vessels since 2003 for fishing during the summer-time ban, Taipei’s data shows. Taiwan too has detained five such boats from China this year alone.
Taiwanese authorities say they were alerted at 20:04 local time (12:04 GMT) on Tuesday by the captain that officers from two Chinese coast guard vessels had boarded and seized the fishing boat.
There was a brief but tense standoff as three Taiwanese coast guard ships were dispatched to rescue the boat. But they said they did not pursue them because there were four other Chinese coast guard ships approaching and they did not want to escalate tensions.
China’s coast guard says the Taiwanese used loudspeakers to demand the release of the fishing boat – and the Chinese did the same, asking the other side not to interfere.
“There were 40 to 50 fishing boats out at sea at the time. I don’t know why he targeted my boat,” the owner of the fishing vessel told local media. “This never happened before – in the past they would just chase you away if you got too close.”
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China’s coast guard has been enforcing Beijing’s assertive claims
Beijing and Taipei used to be more flexible about each other’s fishing fleets, especially around Taiwan’s off-shore islands, which lie extremely close to the Chinese coast.
But in recent years Taiwan has been enforcing its own waters more strictly – a response to what it says is a massive increase in poaching by fishermen from China’s coastal Fujian province.
In February, two Chinese fishermen drowned after their boat overturned while trying to outrun a Taiwanese coast guard boat. Since then, China’s coast guard has turned more assertive in patrolling around Taiwan’s outlying islands.
China has also become increasingly aggressive in enforcing what it sees as its maritime claims across the region. Its coast guard has become the most visbile arm of Beijing’s vast naval operation.
Its dispute with the Philipines over a number of reefs in the South China Sea has caught the most attention and has raised Washington’s concerns.
Filipino soldiers fought off Chinese coast guard ‘with bare hands’
‘Close enough to see their faces’: Chased down by China in South China Sea
But the Chinese coast guard has also stepped up its actions around a Japanese-controlled group of islands in the East China Sea, known in Japan as the Senkaku and in China as the Diaoyu.
Last month Chinese coast guard ships took the unprecedented step of driving away Japanese fishing boats close to the islets. It led to a brief stand-off between Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships.
This more assertive Chinese behaviour also comes just weeks after Beijing implemented new maritime regulations that give it’s coast guard personnel wide powers to board, search and detain vessels inside all waters China claims.
Under the new regulations, foreign nationals who are considered to have violated “exit and entry rules” can be detained without charge for up to 60 days.
The new regulations were thought to have been aimed mostly at deterring Filipino fishermen from entering disputed reefs in the South China Sea.
But maritime scholars have been quick to point out that China has expansive, poorly- defined claims across thousands of square kilometers of sea that are disputed by all of its neighbors from South Korea to Indonesia.
member of the progressive “Squad” who is fighting for her political life just got a boost from House Democratic leadership.
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is running in a competitive primary election this year against an opponent who has set himself up as a more moderate pro-Israel alternative to the outspoken lawmaker.
Bush, however, scored an endorsement from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-N.Y., on Tuesday.
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is facing a competitive primary race this year. (Getty Images)
“Cori has shown up for the people of St. Louis in the fight for reproductive freedom, gun violence prevention and affordable housing. We stand together to endorse Cori Bush for re-election as we collectively work hard to make life better for everyday Americans and battle the corrosive extreme MAGA Republican agenda,” the trio said in a joint statement.
Bush said she was “proud” to have their support in a celebratory post on Instagram.
The two-term progressive Democrat is one of Congress’ harshest critics of Israel and its operation in Gaza. She has accused Israel’s government of waging a genocide on Palestinians and consistently voted against emergency funding for the Middle Eastern ally.
It has earned her opposition from within her own party, with the group Democratic Majority for Israel backing her opponent, Wesley Bell. He has also got the support of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a bipartisan pro-Israel lobbying group.
Earlier this year, Bush also revealed that she was the subject of investigations by the Justice Department, Federal Election Commission and House Ethics Committee over her husband’s paid role as a member of her bodyguard detail.
Bush had accused so-called “right-wing organizations” of “peddling notions that I have misused campaign funds to pay for personal security services” in a Jan. 30 statement.
“I have complied with all applicable laws and House rules–and will continue to prioritize the rules that govern us as federal elected officials,” she said at the time, adding, “in accordance with all applicable rules, I retained my husband as part of my security team to provide security services because he has had extensive experience in this area, and is able to provide the necessary services at or below a fair market rate.”
Rep. Cori Bush’s campaign comes after Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., pictured here, became the first “Squad” member ousted over Israel. (Joy Malone/Getty Images)
House Democratic leaders had indicated early on this year that they would support all of their incumbents – even progressive lawmakers who have fueled the public fracturing of the party in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Bush’s Aug. 6 primary will come weeks after Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., became the first “Squad” member to get booted from the House over their anti-Israel stances.
He lost his race to Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a moderate pro-Israel Democrat who, like Bell, was backed by AIPAC.
Since Joe’s All Star performance, clandestine voices on his team are thinking of sending in a pinch hitter.ButJoe, the stubborn old mule that he is, is having none of it. Many times this happens to old fogies, particularly those who show signs of dementia.
From Joe’s lips, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” But being cognoscente of Joe’s condition, physical and mental, we predict that he will be on his death bed before November 5. The writing is on the wall,
The White House insisted Wednesday that President Biden will “absolutely not” suspend his re-election campaign as Democratic officials and liberal media figures grow increasingly worried he will lose to former President Trump after Biden’s poor debate performance.
To put Sleepy Joe out of his misery, a call was made to, none other than Dr. Kevorkian, who will slip Joe a sleeping pill. Poor Joe, he will soon be sleeping with the fishes.
Often times, especially those Democrats, who don’t know when it is time to quit, are finally at death’s door.The following pictures of two icons, who thought they could defy death are shown here to remind those of when it is time to bite the proverbial bullet,
Trump, according to the NY Times/Sienna poll, has surged into a 6 point lead.Based on this poll, many Democrats are running for the hillsbefore the Republican Flood drown their campaigns.
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Guilty of stealing government documents while a citizen.
POTUS is the rightful nominee, duly nominated during the Democrat primaries.Because Joe imploded in the first debate doesn’t mean that the rest of the Socialist Commies call for him to quit is justified. These guys are scared to hell because a Trump Win will bring their agenda to a screaming halt. Also, down ballot zealots will be tainted with Joe’s record. The American public will take it out on them. We would be scared as hell too.
Joe has done a fine jobon INFLATION, BORDER SECURITY, RUSSIA, CHINA, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,THE ECONOMY, NATIONAL DEBT, FOREIGN RELATIONS, ARMED SERVICES, SOCIAL SECURITY,MEDICARE, GREEN ECONOMY, DRILLING, EDUCATIONand SPREADING LIES. So why would we not support the “Big Guy?”
Joe, please don’t step down, ignore the calls. The rest of your party is going Yellow Pants; such a pleasure for the Republicans and America to see this; they need to see how inept you are during the next 120 days. By then, when Trump gets through with you there will be nothing left but aBag of Bones.
Our philosophy is pragmatic, Joe’s record speaks for itself.Trump can bash him till Kingdom Come,Biden will have no defense except worthless innuendo and lies – such as Trump is a threat to Democracy.
Look in the mirror Joe, you will be looking at the real threat. Can’t deny the illegals raping and murdering young girls can you? Only by lying time and time again. The bottom line here is plain an simple, Joe Biden is a sitting duck.
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